JANE NAMBUYE MANYONGE V. REPUBLIC

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

The appellant, Jane Nambuye Manyonge and Francis Manyonge Mulumeti “the deceased” were a couple. Whereas the deceased worked with the Ministry of Devolution, the appellant was a teacher at the Le Pic School in Dagoretti. The deceased and the appellant were the only people present in their apartment No. 22 in Riruta on the evening of 30^th November, 2013. The plot had 35 apartments.

Jeremiah Asuku, (PW1) was manning the gate to the apartments that evening when he received a telephone call from the wife of Clinton Lagoon Obongo, (PW 10), a resident in the same apartments at about 11.30 p.m. He was informed that someone was knocking at PW10’s door. He went to check but found no one. Whilst at the door he noticed that the lights were on in the deceased’s house. He proceeded to the house and found the door ajar. He found the appellant who informed him that she was the one who had been knocking on the door of PW 10. She further told him that her husband, the deceased was …